Means for transferring railway-cars to and from floating vessels



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, R. P. REVER.

MEANS FOR TRANSF-ERRING RAILWAY CARS TO AND FROM FLOATING VESSELS, &c.

No. 466,516. Patented Jan. 5, 1892'.

' JWWEB WW7 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT P. REvER, 0E NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

MEANS FOR TRANSFERRING RAILWAY-CARS TO AND FROM FLOATING VESSELS, &c.

I SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 466,516, datedJanuary 5, 1892.

Application filed May 1, 1891.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, ROBERT P. REVER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, haveinvented certain new and'useful Improvements in Means forTransferringRailway-(Jars to and from Floating Vessels, &c.;

. and Ido hereby. declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin theart to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference markedthereon,'which form a part of this specification.

The object of this invention is to enable railways-cars to betransferred from-and to boats or floats with greater ease and facility;and it consists in the improved frog and in the arrangements andcombinations of parts,

substantially as will be hereinafter set forth,

and finally embodied in the clauses of the claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like letters indicatecorresponding parts in each of the views, Figure 1 is a plan of theimproved construction. Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken on line so, andFig. 3 is aside view of a rail-tread.

In said drawings, a indicates a portion of a barge, ferry-boat, or floathaving rails ct, and b a dock or landing having the terminus of a trackb thereon, and c o c c are frogs having on each a rail-tread d, curvedat its extremity, as at e, and a guard f, the opposite extremities ofwhich are also curved in a direction away from the tread. At the meetingextremities of the frog the same presents a Elerial No. 391,294. (Nomodel.)

broad and thick plate g, on which the flange of the car-wheels may runwithout cutting or breaking the metal, and at said meeting extremitiesthe rail-treads are vertically beveled, so that the wheels may run fromthe tread onto said plate without jar or concussion, as will beunderstood. By this constructionthe boat need not be brought into exactposition with relation to the dock or landing, and thus time will besaved in making transfers, and the frog-rails being tapered and loweredtoward their outer or diverging ends, the treads of the wheels areraised slightly above and insure their engagement with the top of saidrails at their converging extremities, as will be understood.

What I claim as new is 1. Theimproved frog having both the guard andrail-tread outwardly turned at the extremity, substantially as setforthand shown.

2. In combination with the barge or boat a, having rails a, and frogs oc, with curved rail-treads e, and curved guards f, and plates g, a dockb, with rails 12', and frog c,with corresponding curved treads e, andguards f, substantially as set forth.

3. The improved frog for transferring cars to boats, consisting of aplate g, having the curved and beveled tread d, and curved guard f,substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this20th day of April, 1891.

ROBERT P. REVER.

